Sweet Georgia Brown

She just got here yesterday,Things are hot here now, they say;There's a big change in town.Gals are jealous, there's no doubt;Still, the fellows rave aboutSweet, sweet Georgia Brown!And ever since she came,The colored folks all claim, "Say,"

No gal made has got a shade on Sweet Georgia Brown,Two left feet, oh, so neat,Has Sweet Georgia Brown!They all sigh, and want to die,For Sweet Georgia Brown!I'll tell you just why,You know I don't lie, not much:It's been saidShe knocks 'em dead,When she lands in town!Since she came,Why it's a shame,How she cools them down!Fellows she can't getAre fellows she ain't met!Georgia claimed her, Georgia named her,Sweet Georgia Brown!

Ethel Waters starred in both the stage and film version
of Cabin
in the Sky. The movie also starred Lena Horne and Eddie "Rochester"
Anderson. Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had minor roles. Waters commented
in her remarkable autobiography, His
Eye is on the Sparrow, that she didn't enjoy making the movie --
too much behind-the-scenes back-biting.